An enormous explosion at fertilizer plant in West, TX happened a short while ago and there are reports of dozens of injuries and damage to structures in the area. EMS teams have set up triage stations in a football field near the plant. Because I haven't seen anything about it here yet, I'm posting this to alert Kossacks who live or have people in area that this is going on, and to give a place for check-ins so we'll know you're okay. Hopefully all are okay.
The plant is located near Waco, TX and so the best news stream is on the Twitter search for Waco, linked here: Waco twitter search 4/12/13
Overview and streaming broadcast here: http://www.nbcdfw.com/...
Given that we all know what happened at Waco some years ago near this date, there is a lot of CT-ish speculation going on in the Twitter sphere. I'm not terribly interested in that; this is just a place to alert the community and keep updated on the evolving story.
This has been a rough week. Please be kind in your comments :)
8:21 PM PT: Eternal Hope has started a Liveblog diary on the West explosion, so I will direct your attention and further comments there: http://www.dailykos.com/...